Reported articles

  • "This Tiny Fishing Town Was Poisoned By a Coal Plant. The Government Is Trying to Replace it With a Mine." VICE World News. March 25, 2021. Web. 
  • "This Yoga Co-Op Is Diversifying Teacher Training." Outside. July 31, 2020. Web.
  • "L.A.’s independent bookstores reckon with diversity (or the lack of it)​." LA Times. July 16, 2020. Web and print.​​
  • "As food insecurity soars in north Denver, a Latina-led rapid response team is supporting the city’s most vulnerable families." The Counter. July 20, 2020. Web.

Selected essays

  • "What Runs Beneath." Guernica. (Forthcoming)
  • "We keep fleeing wildfires. Soon, there may be nowhere left that’s safe." The Washington Post. September 11, 2020. Web.
  • "Dimanche à Bamako." The Believer. August 27, 2020. Web.
  • "Searching for Rani." Indiana Review. Issue, 42.2. (Forthcoming Winter 2020)
  • "Reasons I will wed Plantain." The Offing. May 26, 2020. Web.
  • "Overcoming winter's alienation." High Country News. March 4, 2020. Web and print. 
  • "Pulling a Geographic." The Colorado Review. Issue 47.1. Spring 2020.
  • ​"Room Service Economics: Seven Principles." Bat City Review. Issue 16. 2020.
  • "Patience and Me." Carve Magazine. Fall 2019. 
  • ​"To the Driver in Uganda who was not Godfrey." Off Assignment. July 11, 2019. ​Web.
  • "Writing About Binyavanga Wainaina." Los Angeles Review of Books. June 11, 2019. Web.
  • ​"What Mani Ratnam’s Films Meant to Me and the Women of the Sri Lankan Civil War." Catapult​. Feb 21, 2019.  Web.
  • "Hiking Cormac McCarthy’s Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis." Literary Hub. May 28, 2019. Web. (Voted a LitHub staff pick for May 2019)
  • "Rice, Potato Chips, and Lunchroom Diplomacy." TASTE. June 7, 2019. Web.
  • "Pro-Choice Stories: New World Economics." Jellyfish Review. ​May 30, 2019. Web. (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
  • "What Vedic Astrology Taught Me About How To See The World." NYLON. July 3, 2019. Web. ​
  • "Steps to Becoming Fine: As Lived By My Mother." Hippocampus. January 8, 2019. Web. (Nominated for Best of the Net 2019 and a Pushcart Prize) 
  • "Mountain biking is my act of resistance." High Country News. Feb. 14, 2019. Web and print. 
  • "Bone Memories." The Threepenny Review. Issue 156, Winter 2019​. 
  • "Geographies of the Exotic." Entropy. May 8, 2018​. Web.
  • "Finding the Breakfast You Didn't Know You Were Meant to Eat." Roads & Kingdoms. March 14, 2016. Web.
  • "The Average Person in Kampala Knows A Lot About the Canadian Prairies." Africa Is A Country. 2015. Web.

Interviews

  • "I Spent Much of My Career Listening to White Folks Complain About Africa and Africans': an interview with Stephanie Kimou." GEN Mag. Sept 1, 2020. Web. 
  • "Leslie Jamison is Hauling out her Emotional Baggage." Electric Literature. September 23, 2019. Web.
  • ​"What the World Demands of You: The Millions interviews Margo Jefferson." The Millions. September 26, 2018. Web.
  • "Chigozie Obioma Wants to Write a 'Paradise Lost' for the Igbo People." Electric Literature. January 8. 2019. Web.​​